Direct imaging can be a viable technology bridge between digital color and traditional litho. .

By Vic Barkin

Let’s have some fun. Plate imaging and makeready time for many DIs is now under 10 minutes. This is equal to a 350 press sheet run time on a 70-cpm digital press. So what if we ran 500 13x18? sheets, post-RIP, on both a 7,000-iph DI and a 70-cpm digital press? This would take 14 minutes on both the DI and the digital press. But for 1,000 press sheets, that all changes. The DI can do it in 18 minutes, the digital press 28 minutes.

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Vic Nathan Barkin has more than 35 years of experience in the printing, paper and wood products industries and currently owns a consulting practice specializing in business development, workflow, and technology implementation, focusing on “Green Procurement and Production” practices. Vic is a QMS Lead Auditor certified to ISO 9001:2008 standards, is a consultant for the Rainforest Alliance as an FSC Chain of Custody and Controlled Wood senior auditor, is an FSC, SFI and PEFC lead auditor for PricewaterhouseCoopers and SGS North America, and has engaged in more than 700 site assessments and audits.

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